Dear Derek.

His statement may have been discouraging, but it is food for thought. Why did Magix buy vegas to have only 6 developers? Shouldn't the resurrection be far more epic? With the help of the Magix people. I just installed their Video X and it is just as unsympathetic software as Premiere and others. To be honest, being a Magix owner, I'll quit Video X, I'm implementing great things from it into Vegas. And I'm moving all the developers to Vegas. I will make her a strong competitor.

What kind of team works on Soundforge and ACID? You? Or teams from Magix?

The smallish Vegas dev team [..] and so to Magix I say: if this IS your baby, FIX IT!!

Quite a statement and a particularly disheartening one for our team to see considering we rarely take any significant time off and regularly work long hours every day and also many weekends. A team of 5 (actually now 6) developers that is doing the job of what 40+ people were doing previously is not the sign engineers being content.

I suppose there is a good reason the executive people there don't hire more developers ? Can't be money because Vegas costs enough. Maybe it's about intellectual property or trade secrets.. ?

As for me: since VP16 this product has been a very unreliable editor, i do very simple stuff but cannot do much when it crashes so often. I was barely convinced to upgrade to VP19 (since VP17 and VP18 were both so crashy-mc-goo) but i got it on a "sale" of like 80€ (which is a lot for me and maybe any other amateur video editor).

Will I buy VP20 ? I.. don't.. think so..

If VP19 wouldn't crash a single time: yes! I would totally get VP20 !

It seems that we all have different needs and requirements. "One size" does not fit all.

For me personally, I've found for the most part, Vegas (14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19) to be fairly stable. Yes, there are crashes. Show me one piece of complex software like Vegas for the price that doesn't. Go to any forum of the other editors and you will read about problems that people are having. I seem to have a "love affair" as far as editing goes with Vegas. Yes, it does need updates to fix issues, like for me, the high RAM usage on simple projects. But I am hopeful that these things will be addressed.

For me, I have to like the software, and I like Vegas Pro. I have VPX on my computer... if you want something that crashes and is problematic, then that is the software. At least on my computer.

Why don't they hire more programmers? Good question. Maybe financial resources?

Anyways... looking forward to see what is really new in VP20.

Kudos for the small team that does so much!

I think as time goes, VEGAS and Magix will find their stride and the relationship will flourish. There has been encouraging news going on as far as changes in personnel behind the scenes, so let's see what happens. In the mean time, we've got a great new version of VEGAS about to drop, so let's move this back towards VEGAS 20, the original topic of this post, as I feel this has veered a bit too far into a "what is the future of vegas?" discussion... one worth having, perhaps in its own thread... I know a lot of people don't understand why some things happen the way they do, and it's easy to assume the worst, but for the sake of keeping this thread on topic, back to VEGAS 20, please.

If VP19 wouldn't crash a single time: yes! I would totally get VP20 !

Keep your expectations realistic, there isn't a NLE on the market that won't crash once. If you need proof, take a stroll through their forums.

Funny, if Vegas doesn't crash he'll buy VP20. I read this just after Resolve 18 Studio gave me the white screen of death while cancelling an upscaled video....

Let me remind people, I've hidden a couple posts due to the conversation being steered back off topic.. this is about VEGAS 20, not "everyone quiz the dev team about the future of VEGAS". If you want to discuss such things, make a thread for it, and keep that discussion there.

Audio and MIDI is the way Vegas could survive. Just add the capability to connect a midi keyboard and play and record notes via a VST synth and Vegas will have a really amazing feature that no other NLE have. I have request this since several years ago, you really do not understand how useful could this be and also gives a chance for VEGAS to have a feature that no other NLE have.

I really do not understand why this has not been developed years ago when you got a midi and VST capabilities in the software for years. Time pass and you are loosing a really nice opportunity to have something that no other NLE have, composing your own music at the same time you edit so you can make changes in the video and in the music at the same time, adding sound effects via midi and VST etc.. etc...

@supergafudo, or just integrate the MIDI part from ACID Pro, the very simple MIDI things, then, all the other filmscore or what you call can be forgotten forever!

I dreamed this since day one, too.
Both of VEGAS and ACID were programmed from the same hand, shouldn't be that difficult or tiresome.

 

Quite a statement and a particularly disheartening one for our team

@VEGASDerek I've stated many times on these boards, and even in this thread, my respect for the dedication and performance of the dev teamm especially given the task and limitation placed on them, and as the moderators don't want my full philosophical dissertation about any of that, I'll leave it there. Cheers Derek!! Looking forward to 20, I've prepaid as of last week, so my money is where my..... you know.